Enterprise Cloud News

Software AG has launched a “Transformation to the Cloud” initiative to help enterprises identify and implement the right cloud strategies. To support the initiative, Software AG has made the strategic decision to deploy its entire cloud portfolio on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud during 2015.

Using the cloud to share and store corporate files is one of the poster children for ‘rogue IT’ nightmares. This spring, cloud sharing and storage giant Box, looks to resolve this tension with Enterprise Key Management to make the cloud easy, safe and secure.

Having a DevOps strategy doesn't just help deliver a more efficient IT. Done right, DevOps can also make big contributions to a business' bottom (and top) lines. This is one of the big takeaways from a recent DevOps study by CA Technologies.

Although more enterprises continue to move data and workloads to the cloud, almost all IT decision-makers remain concerned about data security and compliance policies to keep data safe, according to a recent survey. These concerns surface when IT evaluates both in-house and vendor options, according to the results, published by NaviSite Inc.

Virtustream is teaming with Infosys, NetApp and Cisco to deliver a testing-as-a-service (TaaS) solution for SAP HANA applications and workloads. The new TaaS Powered by xStream for SAP applications will speed test-to-deployment by bringing together best-of-breed technology from each partner.

AS IDN reported earlier, VMware showcased a slew of technologies and services aimed at delivering enterprise-class clouds and software-defined data centers. But the software giant isn’t going it alone. In Part Two of IDN’s review of VMworld, we take a ‘virtual tour’ of offerings from VMware’s vibrant third-party ecosystem.

GigaSpaces Technologies is taking steps to improve the cloud applications lifecycle, with some new strategic thinking and technology updates to its Cloudify orchestration platform. Cloudify 3.0 fully-automate tasks for pre-deployment, launch and manage apps on popular clouds, including OpenStack, VMware, and IBM SoftLayer.

File-sharing and cloud CMS giant Box is working with Netskope to bring analytics, visibility and policy enforcement to give IT more control over management and security for documents, data and apps that access the Box online service.

Apprenda is taking steps to leverage its PaaS to make it easier for IT to assemble and deploy “best-of-breed” open cloud solutions ready to work with legacy infrastructures. Apprenda’s OneCloud Alliance is attracting attention from Amazon, CA, NetApps, Microsoft and other big names in infrastructure.

Skyfence is looking to provide more cloud adopters with automated visibility and control over cloud apps with a just-released free version of Skyfence Cloud Discovery. The offerings lets companies identify which cloud apps are being used, who’s using them and what risks they pose.

At Black Hat 2014, the best cloud security experts warned that spoofs, hacks, phishes and bots continue to pose risks for public and private cloud projects. With these threats in mind, IDN showcases companies that are moving to plug these cloud security gaps.